Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-10-14
LYNCHBURG AND TAzEyvELL

CUSTOMER IN MANY LINES, AND
STANDING READY TO TAKE OF
ALL SHE MAKES AND SELLS
LYNCHDURG MEETING THE DE
OIAND.
As our readers have observed
the NEWS has been for sometime
calling the attention Of IIynchburg
merchants and manufacturers to
the trade Of the great Southwest,
and the people Of the Southwest to
Lynchburg as Il purchasing mar
ket. Though somewhat enthusetl
on the subject itself, and naturally
expecting a free intercourse in due
time, the News is astonislcd mt
what has been accomplished along
this line in less than one wear.
There arc merchants in Lynchburg
who have done the greatest years
business in their history, because
Of the diversion of the trade of
Southwest Virginia from Balti-
more and other points to their
doors. There are merchants in the
Southwest who have bought their
entire stocks, full in every depart
ment, from the merchants of
Lyncliburg. And yet the work is
just beginning. Observing as the
merchants of Lynchburg are, they
have not yet OWNED the imnlens-
lty of the business that is about to
be opened up i'll this section, and
for which they must have an earn
est purpose to strive.
AS an apt illustration of the re-
lation Of the two places towards
each other, and as an example of
the eternal fitness Of things, we
quote from the Lynchburg News
regarding the casting of pipe by
the GlamOrgan Works by which
Lynchburg becomes the first pro
ducer of metal water pipe in the
eStata of Virginia, and Tazewcll
the NIT purchaser Of the product.
TIC i"''ii"'1,-,nom presented a
busy scene at 2:30 p. M, r.lcn thc
operations for the most important
cast were nearly completed. Big
ladies' filled with metal were car.
rled about the room and poured
into monlds, while Mr.. Il. Il. Lee.
the expert caster of the Hill CITY
Pipe Works, was getting ready for
casting the pipes. Twenty of the
'ilasks' stood in position in the pit,
AMI all each needed was the pour
ing of the metal to make a stand
ard four-inch pipe ready for water
or gas works. Mr.. w. II. Wren.
the president, Was all smiles, while
the big steam crane was being nut
Ill readiness, and said the News
reporter ought to congratulate
himself as being the only newspa-
per man who would witness the
working Of the first metal for pipes
III the State Of Virginia.
AT 900 the molten iron poured
into the big ladle until it was full.
and then it was hitclled to a hook
and pulled over to the steam crane.
Mr.. Lee managed :hc crane and
soon had the ladlc over the first
flask and then in less than n
minute was cast the first pipe, and
from the top rushed out IL blaze
showing that the straw wrapping
was burning, and the cast sue
cess. The first ladle held sufficient
metal for the casting of four pipes,
and as soon rs they were finished
another ladlc was ready and the
casting went OH until twenty pipes
stood in the pit in the place of
that number of moulds. A little
smoothing will be required for
each one, and then they will be
ready for the Tazewell Water
Works."
So it is that Lynchburg, our
most stirring city, puts her Shout
der to the industrial wheel and
brings forth a product of iron never
before made in the State, and
Tazewell, the richest county in
Virginia, commenting her for a
display of the same spirit Actual
ing the New Southwest, takes her